One of Cleopatra’s prized possessions is stolen from her tomb, and she isn't happy about it! As soon as her favored scarab is missing, modern day plagues begin to punish Egypt. A task force of exactly two people develops to find the stone, an American man and his Egyptian wife. Newlyweds and part...

From endless sand dunes and prickly cacti to shimmering mirages and green oases, deserts evoke contradictory images in us. They are lands of desolation, but also of romance, of blistering Mojave heat and biting Gobi cold. Covering a quarter of the earth’s land mass and providing a home to half a b...

You’re stressed, tired of answering the beeps on your phone and computer. Your kids get too much screen time. You don’t know where your next meal was grown or raised. One of the best forms of therapy is simple: get out and stay out—as often and for as long as you can. In Both Feet on the Grou...

This U.S. Army field manual (FM 90-3) provides essential information about desert operations: – the physical environment and types of terrain, weather, effects on personnel and equipment, reconnaissance and surveillance, firepower and force protection, maneuver, movement and mobility, offensive and...

A patented way to cook quick and easy one-pot meals, while keeping ingredients intact and full of flavor. Elizabeth Yarnell developed her revolutionary infusion-cooking method to avoid often mushy slow-cooker results and to make cooking and cleaning up after dinner a breeze. Now anyone with too ma...

As the largest continent, Asia is full of contrasts, with frozen tundra in the north and scorching heat in the south. It is home to the Himalayas, the tallest mountains in the world, as well as the Gobi Desert, the coldest desert. Join author Nellie B. Allen as she uses various means of transport to...